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Sibelius Hindemith wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 01, 2024 1:23 am

Just kidding; seems there just isn't much going on to talk about. Even the media puff pieces have dried out.

KUPP HAD A workout schedule: 6 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday -- the harder workouts, Nacua said -- and noon Tuesday and Thursday. And if Kupp needed to be somewhere else that day, "We were going an extra hour early," Nacua said.

"It wasn't like, 'Oh, we're going to miss our workouts,'" Nacua said. "[He'd say,] 'I'm leaving at 7:30, be here at 5:30 or be here at 5.'"
The workouts took place before the start of the Rams' offseason program and were a combination of mobility work, to stay explosive, and working on their top-end speed. And then Kupp's conditioning days, Nacua said, "were some of the tougher ones." Which is why at some point every morning for the first week, Nacua threw up on Kupp's lawn.

"He didn't exaggerate," Kupp said. "The first few days were pretty rough for him. They were pretty rough.

"He kept coming back, he kept showing up on time, ready to go, great attitude, ready to get to work. And I think that speaks a lot too about the guy that Puka is, pushing through some really tough stuff early on and then being able to just kind of take it in stride and grow."

And since Nacua wanted to stay in the Los Angeles area as much as he could so he wouldn't miss any workouts with Kupp, he asked his family to come to California to visit instead of spending more time in Utah. Which is how his youngest brother Tei, a wide receiver who is committed to BYU, came to work out with Puka and Kupp on one of their easier workouts.

"And my little brother threw up on the recovery day," Nacua said. "But not on Coop's lawn. In Coop's bathroom. I just remember being like, 'Oh my gosh, he's going to get me kicked out of Coop's. They're never going to let me in the gate ever again.'

"'I was like, 'All you had to do was make it out to the lawn, bro. We're already working out outside. All you had to do was take five extra steps, bro.' It was really bad. That was the one I still think about."

D-train wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 01, 2024 11:48 am

Sibelius Hindemith wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 01, 2024 1:23 am

Just kidding; seems there just isn't much going on to talk about. Even the media puff pieces have dried out.

I considered the source and knew it was BS from 1/2 second one.